[SML] Vectorworks for guest designers in schools

[John McAfee]

Reasonable question.  Nemetschek offers free licenses for educational computer labs and free licenses for educators and students, so the school doesn’t have to pay for licenses.  Until this semester, all our designers had their own licenses for the software, so we haven’t had to worry about it.  

Seeing if other institutions were paying for a “loaner license” or including it in the compensation so that we don’t need to complicate the payment/registration component of renting on behalf of the designer is part of why I’m asking the question.  Based on the number of designers that we’ve used previously that are pivoting to other careers, I think it’s going to be more common (at least for us) to find this situation.

> On Feb 10, 2025, at 1:37 PM, Stephen Lee via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 
> John McAfee wrote:
>> How are other folks doing accommodating this? Renting a license for a few months on behalf of the designer?
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but if the school likes that software and wants to make it available for designers to use, why wouldn't the school pay for it's own license that it keeps on hand?
> 
> Another idea would be to include an extra chunk of money in the guest designer's compensation to cover the cost of whatever software the designer wants to use. Make that a standard part of the package.
> 
> Stephen
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